Places to explore near Plumley StationPlumley

Cobbled lane leading to the timber-framed church of St Oswald and the old Bells of Peover inn beside it.

2.4 km SE · Cheshire

Elegant market town of independent shops and monthly artisan markets, the 'Cranford' of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel.

4.5 km NE · Cheshire

Restored open-pan salt works at Marston near Northwich, one of the last of its kind and now a museum of Cheshire's salt trade.

5 km W

The parkland of a vanished hall on Budworth Mere, with lime avenues and birdwatching hides.

5.1 km W

Estate village of red-brick and timbered cottages climbing to St Mary's church, long held up as Cheshire's prettiest.

6.1 km W · Cheshire

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

6.6 km N

A double herbaceous border of the 1840s, reckoned the oldest of its kind in England.

7.2 km NW

The 'Cathedral of the Canals', an 1875 iron boat lift raising narrowboats fifty feet between the Weaver and the Trent & Mersey Canal.

7.4 km W

World Heritage radio-astronomy site near Goostrey, dominated by the giant Lovell Telescope, with a science-centre and arboretum.

8.6 km SE

Rare timber-framed medieval church at Lower Peover, its aisles built of black-and-white oak with a 1582 west tower.

2.4 km SE

Creeper-clad 14th-century coaching inn beside the timber-framed church at Lower Peover, reputedly a Patton and Eisenhower haunt in 1944.

2.5 km SE

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

3.6 km W · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Plain 1689 Nonconformist chapel in Knutsford where the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell worshipped and is buried.

4.5 km NE

Handsome sandstone church rising over the estate village of Great Budworth, with a fine 14th-century tower.

6 km W

Sixty-year-old grower's farm shop at Byley selling homegrown vegetables and Cheshire produce.

6.2 km S

Cheshire's salt river, canalised for the chemical trade and joined to the canal network by the Anderton Boat Lift.

6.4 km W · Cheshire

A National Trust place in Cheshire.

8.3 km NE